Lars U. Scholl

Lars U. Scholl

Lars Ulrich Scholl (born February 2, 1947 in Nordhorn ) is a German maritime historian. Until July 2016 he was President of the International Maritime Economic History Association .

Life

Lars U. Scholl attended the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium in Wuppertal from 1957 to 1966 . After graduating from high school, he served in the army for two years . From 1968 he studied history , English and Scandinavian studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the University of Oxford . From 1974 he received a doctoral scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . In 1977 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Hanover with a doctoral thesis on the development of the professional group of engineers in Germany. The work was awarded the Rudolf Kellermann Prize in 1977 .

In 1979 he came to the German Maritime Museum . Here he was head of the “Shipping in the Industrial Age” department with a focus on merchant shipping, shipbuilding and the navy in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as the special research area “Marine Painting in Germany”. From 1981 to 1989 Scholl held teaching positions at the Universities of Hanover and Bremen as well as at the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences . In 1989 he accepted a teaching position at the University of Hamburg . From 2000 to 2004 he taught there as professor for the history of seafaring .

Scholl was a founding member of the International Maritime Economic History Association (IMEHA) in 1986 and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Journal of Maritime History , from 1995 to 2012 as its chairman. In 2012 he was elected President of IMEHA in Ghent . From 1990 to 1995 Scholl was Vice President of the International Commission for Maritime History (ICMH), and from 1996 to 2012 a member of the Executive Council . In 1994 he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center of Maritime and Regional Studies of the Esbjerg Fisheries and Maritime Museum and the University of South Denmark in Esbjerg , of which he was Chairman from 2003 to 2012. From 2005 to 2012 he was a member of the Executive Council of the International Congress of Maritime Museums . He was a board member of the Association of North Sea Cities from its inception until 2012.

Since 1992 he has been chairman of the German Maritime History Commission. From 2004 he was Managing Director of the German Maritime Museum and Professor of Maritime History at the University of Bremen - the first professorship of this kind in Germany. His main focus was the German shipping history from the 18th century to the present in an international context as well as the history of maritime art. He retired in 2012.

editor

Scholl is the founder and editor of "Deutsche Maritimen Studien / German Maritime Studies" in 2005; 23 volumes had been published by 2015.

Honorary positions

• Vice President of the Wittheit zu Bremen
• Director of the U-Boot-Technikmuseum Wilhelm Bauer in Bremerhaven (until 2012)
• Red Sand Lighthouse Board of Trustees of the German Foundation for Monument Protection , Chairman 2004–2012
• Council member of the Loxstedt community 1986–2001; 1996–2001 deputy mayor

Web links

• Literature by and about Scholl, Lars U. in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Engineers in early industrialization. State and private technicians in the Kingdom of Hanover and on the Ruhr (1815–1873) .
2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Lars U. Scholl (Geisteswissenschaft-im-dialog.de)
3. ^ German Maritime History Commission (ed.): Shipping and trade. Lectures given on the occasion of Lars U. Scholl's retirement in March 2012 . Bremen 2016.